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  • Good Violence and Winning the Revolution

    Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished in that profoundly difficult work of governance. After the parades of ecstatic revolutionaries overloading the…

  • Good, Authority and the Idiot’s Power

    When a new administration appoints the cabinet members, state or federal, the prayer is the appointees have the authority (authenticity/expertise) to handle the power (simple leverage) of their new charges. The attribute of authority is a life time disciplined project, but power can be an ‘idiot’s game’.  Oddly enough so many people have conflated the…

  • Good, Employment Termination, and Internet Assault

    The internet and all of its components are slowly being evolved into a sited weapon as much as a service. The new administration has already begun to practice the act of doxxing. Doxxing in case you haven’t looked it up is the act of revealing personal identity and information on the internet about a person…

  • Good, Death and Dying

    I will break the political trance of this Project for a moment in a commitment to highlighting courageous writing that dares to approach something resembling the truth. Truth, after all, was the first and last victim of this last couple of years or campaigning.  In an earlier Posting we approached the difference between pain and…

  • Good, Sold Identity, and Breaking the Meta-Trance

    This country was founded on democracy for a reason. The reason was people wanted to think for themselves. They wanted build their system of governance from the ground up and live half way up to the sky in that imperfect consensus called the public authority. They intuited that as individuals they were quite imperfect but…

  • Good, Gratitude, and Thanksgiving in Thankless Times

    Setting aside a historic era that seems to be fighting gratitude I would like to start with a few words about thanksgiving and gratitude. I grew up in dry-land farming country where irrigation was a critical part of life. As a child I never knew where the ‘mother ditch’ got its water, but on a…

  • Good, Debate, Lies, and Moral Equivalency

    When did it happen that a person could prevail in a debate simply because that person got away with the most effective lies, omissions, and immoral moral equivalencies? If you watched the US political debates this year, there must have been a new book of debate rules published since I was young and on a…

  • Good, Inconvenient Truth, and the Clearcut of Human Services

    With the current administration no one can predict with any certainty what is going to happen. The pre election promises and proposals imply a concerted effort to clearcut segments of human supports and services. Remember what we learned after achieving the capacity to clear cut a forest. The consequences of forest clearcuts beyond a certain…

  • Good, Gender, Abortion, and the Danger of Mixed Memes

    Initially many of us spent a bit of time wondering what a ‘meme’ was, but after a while it was too late in smart company to actually ask: ‘what the heck is a meme?’ without appearing a little dull. We should have and must now. Merriam Webster defines a meme as: an amusing or interesting item…

  • Good and “Only a Prayer Left”

    People say the political realm is ultimately about the money and power and it would seem those two forces have played a large role in how our nation has made its decisions in this period of history. But not until this election, when we elect the people we have, has it been so clear that…